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Y’know, back in the day a Bioware RPG meant you wouldn’t have to break the bank building a machine for it. Those were simpler times, times where men were men and women were women, until they stumbled onto the cursed girdle of gender-swapping and foolishly decided to try it on before identifying it. And that jerk assassin at the Friendly Arm Inn still recognized you. Sigh.

Where was I? Oh, right. Bioware just released the specs for the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins. Details here:

Windows XP Minimum Specifications

• OS: Windows XP with SP3
• CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater
• AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater
• RAM: 1GB or more
• Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
• DVD ROM (Physical copy)
• 20 GB HD space

Windows Vista Minimum Specifications

• OS: Windows Vista with SP1
• CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
• AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHZ or greater
• RAM: 1.5 GB or more
• Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater
• NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
• DVD ROM (Physical copy)
• 20 GB HD space

Recommended Specifications

• CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
• RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
• Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
• NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
• DVD ROM (Physical copy)
• 20 GB HD space

The minimum specs aren’t too exotic, with the dual-core processor probably being the deal-breaker for some people. Recommended specs start to edge into the Crysis territory of “make everything look real pretty for five minutes until your heat sink melts and the game crashes,” but PCs that can comfortably run Mass Effect or Fallout 3 shouldn’t have any major trouble here. The real headache is the bone-crushing 20gigs of hard drive space, which might force a lot of people to decide whether to make some room or wait a while. For reference, that’s still more than both Oblivion and Fallout 3 combined, including at least eight gigs or so of mods.

So yeah, this one’s gonna be a space hog more than anything, and not the awesome kind of Space Hog that plays “In the Meantime.” Time will tell if it’s worth it, but it’s gonna have to throw in a lot of tacky sex scenes and dragon fights to make up for it.

Source: Kotaku